Review: Topia World Builder

Fun though it is to smash aliens in the face, leap around platform games and combo the living hell out of a match-three puzzler, sometimes you want something a little more sedate, and just a little more experimental.

Enter Topia World Builder, a game that's best described as a digital toy where you manipulate a planet, create epic mountain ranges, and nurture the wildlife in your new world. With mere finger-smears and pinch commands, you can create a world that's truly your own.

What's Hot

If you're the kind of player who really gets a kick out of sandbox worlds like Minecraft, you're going to love this game. It doesn't quite have the depth that you'll have come to expect from the best examples of the genre, but it has all of the magic and will happily consume as much free time as you're prepared to give it.

It's also spectacularly beautiful, and the world ripples under your fingertip as it reacts to your touch. Once you've created your home from home, you can even populate it with wildlife. This requires a delicate balancing act between predator and prey, assuming you want to maintain equilibrium that is.

What's Not

There are no objectives as such in the game – it's just your own personal sandbox to play in, and so you'll never be tasked to create so many mountain-ranges, or blend a particular ecosystem together. Much like the early release of Minecraft, think of this as a game that will be built upon with future updates. There's much talk from the developer's that they have just this plan in mind should the core game prove successful.

It might also take you a little while to master the controls without accidentally carving a gigantic line in your carefully crafted landscape!

The Verdict

If you absolutely demand objectives and missions in your mobile games, you're going to come away from Topia World Builder just a little bit disappointed. Cast off those expectations though, as this is one of the most satisfying games we've played in a long time, and will last you just as long as your imagination's prepared to invest in it.

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